[Alden Loveshade]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

How well do you understand this? https://youtu.be/oFX1nbD3dV0

Originally Posted by Phantasm

The "heavy Norman-French influence on the language" makes me think Anglish is closer to the Middle English of Chaucer..

On both of these, keep in mind that we don't actually know how they pronounced words because there are, of course, no period recordings. Think of how differently two modern English speakers might recite the same modern paragraph.

I remember seeing a video of an acting troupe that included Patrick Stewart (the video was made before Star Trek: The Next Generation). The suspicion there was that Elizabethan English (around 1600) sounded less like what we might hear in Elizabethan movies and more like what we think of as "pirate talk."